It started in Mt. Vernon

A nod to Robert Burns.   "To A Mouse," was written in 1785 by Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns.  He wrote it like he would have said it, in local Scottish dialect. The poem describes the accidental destruction of a mouses nest, and sorrow for the mouses situation.  The mouse faces hardship, through no fault of her own.  Her nest is no more.  Her work was for nothing.  Mouse picture above borrowed from a blog story by Brenda Walker   https://naspc.scot/2024/01/25/the-best-laid-schemes-of-mice-and-men-robert-burns/   To A Mouse   by Robert Burns,  1785 On Turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785. Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty,           Wi’ bickerin brattle! I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee           Wi’ murd’ring pattle! I’m t...